New era started probably with Skype, which for most of us was an introduction to new features like audio- and videochat. My favorite one was Konnekt and later AQQ. Whether based on open protocols (like Jabber) or reverse-engineering others, these multi-communicators were often lightweight, supported alternative platforms (like Pidgin working on Linux) and integrated support for many protocols in a single app, with single list of contacts and unified user interface. Then, something wonderful happened - alternative clients started to appear. Over time clients for those networks became bloated with more or less useful features, fancy skins and emoticons, and of course lots of ads - which all consumed additional RAM and CPU time, not to mention just being annoying. Gadu-Gadu (renamed later to GG) was local one very popular in Poland, but others were also in use, like AOL, MSN, Jabber. There were many of them, all having similar, basic functionality - list of contacts, seeing their status (available, away, offline) and chat. Later, changes came with the appearance of Instant Messaging (IM) apps, from which ICQ was probably the first. Real-time chat was possible through IRC protocol. I can remember time when Internet was still young and the basic mean of communication was e-mail. Entries for tag "internet", ordered from most recent.
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